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  • IPL 2021: Short video app Roposo & Glance partner with CSK

    IPL 2021: Short video app Roposo & Glance partner with CSK

    MUMBAI: InMobi-owned short video app Roposo and lock screen content platform Glance have partnered with Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as its official lock screen partner and official short video app partner, respectively. The team will be live-streaming special shows on Glance, and post original short videos on Roposo, throughout the ongoing IPL 2021 tournament that kickstarted on 9 April.

    As part of the deal, cricket enthusiasts can also share uploaded short videos by their favourite players from CSK, on Glance and Roposo apps.

    “With the CSK team all set to livestream their exclusive and original content, we are primed to offer the users of Glance and Roposo an unmatched experience throughout this year’s tournament," said Glance vice president – marketing Bikash Chowdhury.

    “CSK has been among the tournament’s top contenders, year after year, just as Glance and Roposo have been going from strength to strength with each passing year. We are proud to bring 120 million Indians closer to a dream team like CSK, both on Glance’s lock screen and through their short videos on Roposo." Chowdhury added.

    The MS Dhoni-led team has already set up its official profile on Roposo. The company said that fans will get a chance to engage with players and take part in challenges to show their support for CSK.

    “Being a team built on loving fans, we always look for new ways to reach out to our supporters. This partnership with Glance and Roposo provides an exciting opportunity to engage with our fans on different digital platforms," said Chennai Super Kings chief executive K S Viswanathan.

  • Krista Thomas joins InMobi Marketing Cloud as SVP & global head – marketing

    Krista Thomas joins InMobi Marketing Cloud as SVP & global head – marketing

    NEW DELHI: InMobi has onboarded ad tech veteran Krista Thomas as the senior vice president and global head of marketing for its marketing cloud platform.

    In her new role, Thomas will utilise over 20 years of experience working in the media and marketing industries to expand the awareness and influence of the company, drive customer acquisition, and launch new solutions based on InMobi’s end-to-end advertising solutions, according to an official statement.

    “She [Krista Thomas] will play an instrumental role in advancing our mission to drive real connections between brands and consumers through intelligent, mobile-first experiences,” said InMobi Group co-founder & InMobi marketing cloud CEO Abhay Singhal.

    “As vaccines continue to roll out and doors reopen, businesses everywhere are seeking partners that can help them re-engage and reignite their audiences to take or defend market share. InMobi is that partner, and now is the time,” added Thomas.

    Prior to joining InMobi, she was the SVP marketing for Amobee where she led the company’s TV-first strategy, established a marketing strategy, and relaunched the brand’s positioning and messaging to support the CTV allocator solution.

    With the onset of Covid2019, Thomas was also a co-founder of the #AdTechCares consortium, comprising over 50 members, including InMobi, and launched three Covid2019 PSA campaigns.

    Previously, Thomas had stints as SVP marketing for VideoAmp, and VP product marketing for Rubicon Project (now Magnite) where she helped the company go public in 2014.

    She has also been associated with eBay / Shopping.com, AOL Time Warner, and Thomson Reuters and helped launch start-ups Ad.ly, Quantcast, and Sean Parker’s Plaxo.

  • Indian short-video platforms score funding from global investors

    Indian short-video platforms score funding from global investors

    KOLKATA: When one door closes, another opens. The ban on TikTok resulted in a wellspring of similar short video format platforms which became home to India’s considerable content creation community. Josh and Roposo are among these homegrown video sharing apps which rode the vocal for local wave and expanded their market shares post the government cracking the whip on Chinese apps. They quickly racked up several million downloads and an active user base within days of launch. Now, their growth trajectory has piqued the interest of top-notch global investors.

    TikTok copycat Josh’s parent company Bengaluru-based VerSe Innovation has raised nearly Rs 740 crore ($100 million) from investors like Google, Microsoft, AlphaWave. VerSe Innovation is valued at more than around Rs 7,400 crore ($ 1 billion) following the investment. Additionally, Roposo’s parent company Glance InMobi has just concluded a Rs 1,070 crore ($145 million) investment round from Google and Mithril Capital.

    Google is optimistic that the investments in leading Indian start-ups will enable them to further scale the availability of relevant and engaging content in different formats across various Indic languages.

    “We’re also eager to support the wider ecosystem in India, particularly local startups innovating in this space. When we shared details of the India Digitization Fund in July this year, we identified enabling affordable access and information for every Indian in their own language, whether it’s Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, and more as a key pillar in order to drive forward India’s digitisation,” Google said in a blogpost.

    VerSe Innovation has joined India’s unicorn club on the back of this latest round of funding, which will be deployed towards the augmentation of local language content offerings, the development of content creator ecosystem, and innovation in AI and ML along with focusing on Josh. The app currently has more than 77 million monthly active users and 36 million daily active users and plays over 1.5 billion videos per day.

    On the other hand, Glance will use the new investment to deepen its AI capability across Glance and Roposo, expand its technology team, and launch services on the platform. The app has more than 33 million monthly active users and has been downloaded more than 100 million times on Google Play Store.

    Back in September, ShareChat (behind the short video format app Moj) also raised roughly Rs 300 crores ($40 million) from investors including Twitter Inc and Lightspeed Ventures. According to a recent report, short-form videos have emerged as the fastest-growing content category in India with 180 million users in the financial year 2020.

  • InMobi Appoints Jayesh Ullattil as GM for India

    InMobi Appoints Jayesh Ullattil as GM for India

    NEW DELHI: InMobi, the world's leading marketing cloud, announced the appointment of Jayesh Ullattil as vice president and general manager for India.  Ullattil will be a part of the Asia Pacific leadership team led by Vasuta Agarwal and will be based out of Bengaluru.

    Ullattil will be responsible for growing the mobile advertising and marketing business for InMobi across its portfolio of products, including programmatic and performance businesses, and data and online research platforms.

    InMobi MD Asia Pacific Vasuta Agarwal said, "We are glad to welcome Jayesh onboard the InMobi leadership team in the Asia Pacific. These are crucial times for brands and marketers across the globe who are looking to transform their business and marketing digitally. Under Jayesh's leadership, InMobi will continue to enable marketers and advertisers in India as they increasingly rely on and invest in mobile to drive real connections with their consumers."

    In his two decades of industry experience, Ullattil has worked with leading consumer brands that include Perfetti Van Melle, Nokia, Henkel, Blackberry, and more recently, BCCL and Hotstar. Prior to joining InMobi, Ullattil was vice-president of sales in Hotstar and instrumental in building strategic partnerships with leading telecom, OEM, consumer durables, and media brands.

    "InMobi has seen strong growth in India over the past few years and we are looking to double down on this. Jayesh's strong and varied experience across different industries and in both offline and online media will help us provide marketers the guidance and outcomes they desire in an ever-changing and evolving Indian digital landscape," added Agarwal.

    "India is one of the most exciting and fastest-growing mobile markets across the globe and this is an opportunity to have an immediate and large impact on the future of the AdTech industry. I am looking forward to expanding the business and growing market share and mindshare for InMobi in India," shared Ullattil. 

    Overall, Ullattil has 20 years of experience across diverse industries spanning FMCG, technology, media & entertainment, and digital/ OTT media.

  • Want to help apps in creating short video platforms: Roposo’s Avinash Saxena

    Want to help apps in creating short video platforms: Roposo’s Avinash Saxena

    MUMBAI: At a time when local versus global is being heavily promoted, a number of homegrown start-ups are also gaining from the trend. While the user-generated content (UGC) ecosystem in India has largely been dominated by a few global players, a number of homegrown ones are gradually emerging. Roposo, which falls among the promising ones, now has more than five crore users. 

    In a virtual roundtable by Indiantelevision.com, Roposo co-founder and Glance VP product management Avinash Saxena said that it has more than 100 million daily active users (DAU) now. Roposo was acquired by InMobi Group’s Glance last year, making its ecosystem stronger. Saxena said that a lot of people see content through lock screen on their phones through Glance, which has video content, news and a game centre.

    While Saxena mentioned that millions of videos are being created on Roposo, it has various channels on which those videos go up. Rather than having a singular feed like other short video platforms, Roposo believes in the diversity of content, allowing for multi-channel viewing. He also added that content on Roposo is very diverse including creators showcasing talents, users expressing views, updating local news, teaching, etc.

    “Roposo is working brilliantly with communities and Glance is helping communities to increase the outreach of videos created through the community. So we thought why not help other apps to create short video platforms and that is why we have a very important SDK. We are testing with a couple of partners and have got wonderful results. It can help any app to become a short video platform for their own community,” Saxena added.

    Usually, on Roposo, every user spends 20-25 minutes every day, watching nearly 100 short videos per day. While during the Covid2019 crisis more people have turned online, Saxena said  Roposo is serving a purpose to connect people and keeping the connection alive through interesting videos and helping them get over the boredom. According to him, community engagement is keeping their morale high. 

    However, as now lockdown is easing in many places, Saxena said that many of the videos being created out of the home. He said that many videos are being created on Covid2019-related topics on the back of their interesting filters. They also have a channel dedicated for Covid2019-related topics.

    Saxena said that they are directly competing with TikTok although being a different product. He said that the local crowd is supporting them and also sharing constructive feedback. However, he stated that if someone makes a good product, the community will support and extend the app’s awareness, making it viral. But if a product is not good it won’t be able to thrive whatever the origin might be. 

    “From November we have been a part of InMobi group, which works across the globe. There is a committee which takes care of everything related to security and user information. We have not experienced any attack which has altered content but if there is any we will be quick to respond,” Saxena added on security concerns.

    He also opined that allowing creators to be creative, building a community and creating a smart recommendation engine is mandatory for such platforms to succed.

  • Tech Mahindra, InMobi collaborate for industry’s first video ad solution for mobile devices

    Tech Mahindra, InMobi collaborate for industry’s first video ad solution for mobile devices

    MUMBAI: Tech Mahindra Ltd, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, announced a collaboration with InMobi, one of the world's leading mobile-focused Marketing Clouds, to offer the industry’s first video advertising solution for mobile, for advertisers like telecom providers and media and entertainment companies. The solution will transform mobile video advertising by enabling them to develop and distribute innovative and engaging video advertisements on mobile.

    The new solution is an addition to the capitalise component of Tech Mahindra’s VU platform (Video Unlimited) that caters to 4Cs of content: Create, Curate, Circulate, and Capitalize. Through this partnership, organisations will be able to take the video advertisements created at scale with Tech Mahindra and, through InMobi, distribute them to targeted audiences through leading global mobile applications.

    Tech Mahindra president, communications, media & entertainment business Manish Vyas said, “As a part of our TechMNxt charter, Tech Mahindra is committed to leverage next generation technologies and solutions to disrupt and enable digital transformation, and to build and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions. Our partnership with InMobi helps us in delivering connected experience to our telecom and media customers through the first of its kind adtech platform.”

    With industry-leading attribution, data analysis and programmatic expertise, InMobi is helping brands drive real connections through in-app environments and video. Through this partnership, Tech Mahindra customers will gain access to exclusive supply through InMobi Exchange, InMobi’s in-house programmatic mobile ad exchange, as well as additional supply sources through InMobi’s Demand-Side Platform, InMobi DSP. InMobi’s commitment to transparency and verifiable measurement through trusted third parties will be available by default to all Tech Mahindra customers working with InMobi.

    InMobi Group co-founder and InMobi Marketing Cloud CEO Abhay Singhal said, “We are excited to help the world’s biggest media and entertainment companies find and reach the right audiences through mobile with Tech Mahindra. InMobi’s unique data insights, precise audience segments and expertise in both programmatic and in-app environments will prove to be immensely valuable for Tech Mahindra’s customers looking to drive real connections with their consumers through mobile video advertising. Our commitment to full transparency and leading partnerships with third-party measurement and verification companies will help Tech Mahindra’s clients have the trust and vision needed to make in-app advertising work well on their terms.”

    As part of the TechMNxt charter, Tech Mahindra is focused on building an ecosystem that supports collaboration in the real sense. As a step in this direction, Tech Mahindra has collaborated with some of the finest businesses, working with academia, drawing from the millennial workforce and jointly creating cutting-edge technology solutions with partners.

  • Eros Now partners InMobi to monetise ads

    Eros Now partners InMobi to monetise ads

    MUMBAI: India’s over the top (OTT) platform Eros Now, part of Eros International, has tied up with InMobi to enable advertisers to directly monetise on Eros Now’s video platform, which boasts an audience of over a 100 million registered users. This exclusive partnership will give brands and advertisers in India a unique opportunity to experience an end-to-end playbook that spans innovative video and ad formats, dynamic in-content placement of high-quality movies, and music videos and originals across devices.

    In addition, Eros Now will also adopt InMobi’s disruptive mobile-first advertising platform to market content through the in-app video universe across India.  

    Commenting on this association, Eros Digital CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “With the advertising landscape transforming into immersive engagement, brands can now leverage deep story-telling to collaborate with the audience. The digital penetration is seeing an incremental growth across cities in India and the consumer is increasingly spending much more time on their mobile devices than they did a few years ago, making it one of the most sought-after platforms for advertising. We are happy to join hands with one of the leading advertising platforms in India and aim to continue providing a seamless experience to all our subscribers.”

    InMobi founder and CEO Naveen Tewari said, “Our association with Eros Now marks an industry first partnership in the OTT space which is the next big thing after the app economy. It will be a trendsetter in many ways. Our distinction lies in our core business which centres around the primary screen – mobile; making this an organic progression for us, and that’s where our decade-long expertise also comes at play. Our full-stack mobile OTT solutions hinged on in-app and our video-first platform will not only allow for deep brand integrations but will improve the overall efficacy of content monetisation, driven through Eros Now’s original video content.”

    Eros Now hopes to open up avenues for both traditional and non-traditional brands to engage with their target audience. Mobile in-app advertising is a highly personalised segment, and by using InMobi’s technology and innovation, Eros Now will give advertisers access to creative optimisation, re-targeting and data-driven decision-making capability to run ads and to be the market leader.

  • Eros Now Announces Partnership with InMobi

    Eros Now Announces Partnership with InMobi

    MUMBAI: Eros International PLC (NYSE:EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, announced today that Eros Now, it’s cutting-edge digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform, has partnered with InMobi, a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers.

    The association will enable advertisers to directly monetize on Eros Now’s video platform, which boasts an audience of over a 100 million registered users, dedicated to Bollywood and movie streaming. This exclusive partnership will give brands and advertisers in India a unique opportunity to experience an end-to-end playbook that spans innovative video and ad formats, dynamic in-content placement of high-quality movies, and music videos and originals across devices. In addition, Eros Now will also adopt InMobi’s disruptive mobile-first advertising platform to market content through the in-app video universe across India. It will unlock a fantastic avenue for brands to engage with their audiences on a native video platform hosting Bollywood and movie content, which up until now had principally been out of the advertiser purview.

    Commenting on this association, Rishika Lulla Singh, CEO, Eros Digital, said, “With the advertising landscape transforming into immersive engagement, brands can now leverage deep story-telling to collaborate with the audience. The digital penetration is seeing an incremental growth across cities in India and the consumer is increasingly spending much more time on their mobile devices than they did a few years ago, making it one of the most sought-after platforms for advertising. We are happy to join hands with one of the leading advertising platforms in India and aim to continue providing a seamless experience to all our subscribers.”

    Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO, InMobi, said, “Our association with Eros Now marks an industry first partnership in the OTT space which is the next big thing after the app economy. It will be a trendsetter in many ways. Our distinction lies in our core business which centers around the primary screen – Mobile; making this an organic progression for us, and that’s where our decade-long expertise also comes at play. Our full-stack mobile OTT solutions hinged on in-app and our video-first platform will not only allow for deep brand integrations but will improve the overall efficacy of content monetization, driven through Eros Now’s original video content.”

    India’s OTT video viewing is expected to grow by 355 million by 2020 as per a Deloitte report. With this partnership, Eros Now will open-up avenues for both traditional and non-traditional brands to engage with their target audience. Mobile in-app advertising is a highly personalized segment, and by using InMobi’s technology and innovation, Eros Now will give advertisers access to creative optimization, re-targeting and data-driven decision-making, capability to run ads, and to be the market leader.

    With this partnership, the two companies will work in close cooperation to devise a go-to-market strategy, offering integrated advertising and marketing solutions for Eros Now.

  • InMobi looks to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India

    InMobi looks to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India

    MUMBAI: InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform,has recently partnered with Tapjoy, a platform for mobile advertising and app monetisation, to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India.

    Mobile gaming continues to see growing adoption in India. According to a report by Nasscom, mobile game downloads are expected to expand at a CAGR of 58 per cent over the next five years, touching an estimated 5.3 billion downloads in 2020.

    Capitalising on this trend, InMobi’s partnership with Tapjoy presents a robust opportunity for Indian advertisers to enhance their reach to a wide selection of global mobile gaming apps. Tapjoy has 40 million unique users in India across popular mobile games such as 8 Ball Pool, Criminal Case, Shadow Fight 2, and Subway Surfers, and advertisers will be able to expand their reach beyond InMobi’s 135mn unique devices in India through access to Tapjoy’s India inventory.

    Tapjoy’s Interplay ads help marketers connect with a qualified audience in premium apps.

    “We are excited to be Tapjoy’s exclusive monetization partner in India. Mobile gaming is growing at an exponential pace in India and through this partnership we are bringing the best of global mobile gaming inventory to advertisers in India who want to reach high quality users,” said InMobi VP and GM India Vasuta Agarwal.

    “Our international game studio partners are seeing very strong growth with Indian consumers and we’re excited to work with InMobi to ensure those audiences are presented with highly engaging rewarded ads from their favorite local brands,” added Tapjoy strategy SVP Paul Longhenry.

  • InMobi looks to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India

    InMobi looks to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India

    MUMBAI: InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform,has recently partnered with Tapjoy, a platform for mobile advertising and app monetisation, to monetise Tapjoy’s inventory in India.

    Mobile gaming continues to see growing adoption in India. According to a report by Nasscom, mobile game downloads are expected to expand at a CAGR of 58 per cent over the next five years, touching an estimated 5.3 billion downloads in 2020.

    Capitalising on this trend, InMobi’s partnership with Tapjoy presents a robust opportunity for Indian advertisers to enhance their reach to a wide selection of global mobile gaming apps. Tapjoy has 40 million unique users in India across popular mobile games such as 8 Ball Pool, Criminal Case, Shadow Fight 2, and Subway Surfers, and advertisers will be able to expand their reach beyond InMobi’s 135mn unique devices in India through access to Tapjoy’s India inventory.

    Tapjoy’s Interplay ads help marketers connect with a qualified audience in premium apps.

    “We are excited to be Tapjoy’s exclusive monetization partner in India. Mobile gaming is growing at an exponential pace in India and through this partnership we are bringing the best of global mobile gaming inventory to advertisers in India who want to reach high quality users,” said InMobi VP and GM India Vasuta Agarwal.

    “Our international game studio partners are seeing very strong growth with Indian consumers and we’re excited to work with InMobi to ensure those audiences are presented with highly engaging rewarded ads from their favorite local brands,” added Tapjoy strategy SVP Paul Longhenry.